Cigars, or, Oh the hypocrisy

Did you know that our esteemed 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, delayed signing the sanctions against Cuba in 1962 until he could take delivery of about 1,200 H.Upmann Cuban cigars? This round of the embargo made it illegal to import cuban cigars, and he wanted to get ahead of the directive he was about to sign.

In 1999 our 42nd President, William Jefferson Clinton, expanded the embargo against Cuba, making it illegal for a U.S. citizen to even smoke a Cuban cigar, EVEN IF THAT CITIZEN IS NOT INSIDE THE UNITED STATES at the time? We won't go into his particular thing with cigars right here, but perhaps the same thing comes to your mind as comes to mine?

My point is certainly not that Castro's regime shouldn't be isolated and minimalized. It should be. And I really don't even want to start an argument about our politicians in the US.

But did you know, or at least I have been told, that Hoyo de Monterrey in Habana Cuba makes a cigar called an Epicure No.2 that is considered one of the best smokes on the planet?

I've been told that these particular cigars like 68 - 70 degrees Fahrenheit and slightly more relative humidity, say in the 72% range, than smokes from elsewhere.

Yes, indeed.